The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

The Seasons in Quincy is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. In 1973, Berger abandoned the metropolis to live in the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. He realised that subsistence peasant farming, which had sustained humanity for millennia, was drawing to an historical close. He determined to spend the rest of his life bearing witness to this vanishing existence, not least by participating in it. Berger’s trilogy Into their Labours chronicles the peasant life of this Alpine village and its surrounding countryside.